An Open Letter to the Infertile
Dear Rational Faiths, As an active, temple recommend holding member of the LDS faith, I was a bit shocked at your recent blog post about infertility (to be honest I didn’t read most of it…I stopped at...
View ArticleIs the Family Proclamation scripture? Does it matter?
Since its release in September of 1995, perhaps no other official Church text in the last 20 years has elicited more debate as to its nature, meaning and importance than The Family: A Proclamation to...
View ArticleDid Kate Kelly’s Local Leaders Follow the Handbook?
In his landmark work Jesus the Christ, James E. Talmage spends several pages outlining the “high priest’s unrighteous adjuration” of the Savior. The Sanhedrin wanted so badly to not only stem the...
View Article“The Crucible of Doubt” by Fiona and Terryl Givens
I remember being taught as a young public relations student at BYU-Idaho that one of the keys to dealing with reporters and their probing questions – ever searching for a soundbyte they can lead their...
View ArticleThe Bastardization of Truth
It’s time we stopped idolizing truth. It’s time we stopped treating truth like a banner at the end of a mid-distance race. See, over there in the distance? That’s truth, we say. It’s just over there,...
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Mormonism May Be Made Up…But It’s Still True
Do you know how embarrassing it is to be caught crying during a kids movie? Let me tell you about it. Besides being one of the top movies of 2014, the LEGO Movie is—if you’re paying attention—kind of a...
View ArticleSteve Evans and Nathaniel Givens on John Dehlin — When Logical Fallacies Attack
The other day my 6-year-old son came to me in tears, recounting the story of how he was – for the first time in his short time in the public education system – called a nasty name by a schoolmate. That...
View ArticleGrace is Not God’s Backup Plan — A Review
It’s tempting at first to pass off Adam Miller’s new book as simply an attempt – much like the New International Version of the Bible – at making Paul’s writing to the Romans more understandable....
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I’m Not Struggling. I’m Just Different.
It’s great to have people around you who care about you enough to “check in” on you in the midst of a faith crisis. I’ve been lucky enough to have people like that in my life. At first I really needed...
View Article5 Ways the Church’s LGBTQ Approach is Morally and Spiritually Bankrupt
The Emperor shivered, for he suspected they were right. But he thought, “This procession has got to go on.” So he walked more proudly than ever, as his noblemen held high the train that wasn’t there at...
View ArticleToward a More Radical Christianity
There’s nothing more frustrating to a corporation than to spend millions of dollars creating, establishing and communicating a brand, only to see it get sucked up by the market and reduced to a mere...
View ArticleWhy I Turned In My Temple Recommend
I turned in my temple recommend this week. Folded it between a white sheet of paper, placed it into a white envelope and sent it to my Stake President. After months of prayer and consideration and...
View ArticleExcommunicating Apostates: A One Act Play
Cast: (SP) Stake President (Apostle) An apostle making his way through the land (A) ‘Apostate’ man (WM1,WM2,WM3) Ward Members one, two and three Ward Members: (traipsing through the ward building,...
View ArticleMalcom Gladwell, Elder Holland and the Legitimacy of Authority
I had the unique opportunity of hearing Malcolm Gladwell speak in person a few weeks ago. I expected him to speak about outliers or perhaps tipping points, but instead he chose a topic that surprised...
View ArticleSteve Evans and Nathaniel Givens on John Dehlin — When Logical Fallacies Attack
The other day my 6-year-old son came to me in tears, recounting the story of how he was – for the first time in his short time in the public education system – called a nasty name by a schoolmate. That...
View ArticleGrace is Not God’s Backup Plan — A Review
It’s tempting at first to pass off Adam Miller’s new book as simply an attempt – much like the New International Version of the Bible – at making Paul’s writing to the Romans more understandable....
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I’m Not Struggling. I’m Just Different.
It’s great to have people around you who care about you enough to “check in” on you in the midst of a faith crisis. I’ve been lucky enough to have people like that in my life. At first I really needed...
View Article5 Ways the Church’s LGBTQ Approach is Morally and Spiritually Bankrupt
The Emperor shivered, for he suspected they were right. But he thought, “This procession has got to go on.” So he walked more proudly than ever, as his noblemen held high the train that wasn’t there at...
View ArticleToward a More Radical Christianity
There’s nothing more frustrating to a corporation than to spend millions of dollars creating, establishing and communicating a brand, only to see it get sucked up by the market and reduced to a mere...
View ArticleWhy I Turned In My Temple Recommend
I turned in my temple recommend this week. Folded it between a white sheet of paper, placed it into a white envelope and sent it to my Stake President. After months of prayer and consideration and...
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